A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
Source V. Hartikainen
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Everyone needs some stardust. Sprinkle it on your next project.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from repeated instances of corner decoration 8. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman